Revenant Media: Theremin '75 Exhibition

25 Oct 2013

Venue

ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra (archived)

Event

Revenant Media: Theremin '75 exhibition (archived)

Type

Invited

Instrument

Extempore

Videos

Crowd video, Screencapture (re-recorded)

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.20743642

The crowd video from the gig isn’t always the best viewpoint for looking at the code.

This gig has a fun backstory (from ANU Media):

To celebrate UNESCO’s World Day for Audio Visual Media the ANU School of Art presents an evening of Revenant Media, two important events bringing old media back to life in a new context. In Theremin ’75 a pioneering piece of Australian new media, Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski’s theremin of 1975, will be played again.

To celebrate, I put together a theremin-inspired livecoding set (with live visuals inspired by Stan’s beautiful theremins).

Because I wanted to show off the visuals (and the crowd video didn’t really do that) I “re-recorded” (to the best of my ability to remember) this set a couple of days later and took a direct screencapture. You don’t get the crowd (sadly) but on the upside the video & audio quality is much nicer.

Part of a two-decade live-coding body of work.

@misc{swift_2013_20743642,
  author       = {Swift, Ben},
  title        = {{Revenant Media: Theremin '75 Exhibition}},
  year         = {2013},
  month        = {oct},
  howpublished = {Live-coding performance, Revenant Media: Theremin '75 exhibition, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.20743642},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20743642},
  note         = {ORCID: Swift, Ben (0000-0003-2138-5969)},
}